Dozens of Senators worry the NSA may be collecting our gun data, too
Norvell Rose
Liberty News
6/29/2013
What?! The National Security Agency (NSA) may also be harvesting data that could be used to construct a national gun registry?
We already know that the government snoops – claiming they’re acting ethically to protect us from terror attack – are collecting and storing data on our phone calls, emails, texts, etc. Now, could it be possible that NSA surveillance also gathers info that they could use to find out who owns what kinds of firearms?
In a letter just sent to James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, a bipartisan group of 26 Senators, led by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), is asking Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to detail the scope and limits of the NSA’s surveillance activities.
One very disturbing excerpt from the letter, referencing the NSA’s secret surveillance, reads:
It can be used to collect information on credit card purchases, pharmacy records, library records, firearm sales records, financial information, and a range of other sensitive subjects…. The bulk collection authority could potentially be used to supersede bans on maintaining gun owner databases, or laws protecting the privacy of medical records, financial records, and records of book and movie purchases…
The article continues at Liberty News.
Related: An awesome article. The Myth of National Security
…Conservatives everywhere were frustrated when TSA made the decision to head-pat women in burkas, while doing full body searches on non -burka’d grannies at the airport. However, if you read through Heritage Foundation’s report about 40 terror plots that have been foiled since 9/11, you will notice there are no “Smith’s” or “Joneses” listed. So why do we keep spending our money and energy chasing our own people, spying into every aspect of their lives, while ignoring Mosques and the folks with Arab-sounding names?
Our government agencies are using tax dollars to attack our own good citizens, yet ignore the actual invaders running through our fenceless borders…
Read the whole thing.
